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“Politics,” as the harsh, albeit successful German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck claimed, “is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art...
In his 2021 annual threat assessment, Australia’s director-general of ASIO Mike Burgess pointed to an active spy ring — a “nest of spies”...
The International Criminal Court is a dusty jewel, a creation of heat, tension and manufacture in the international community . Various...
In his 2021 annual threat assessment, the director-general of ASIO, the Australian domestic intelligence service, pointed to an...
The compromised former top boss of the Australian civil service has the lick and smell of belligerence. Begrudgingly conceding error and when in...
What a stinking story of inhumanity. A country intent on sending asylum seekers to one whose residents have actually applied for asylum and sanctuary...
The rage and protest against Israel’s campaign in Gaza, ongoing since the October 7 attacks by Hamas, has stirred student activity across a number...
On April 25, along Melbourne’s arterial Swanston Street, the military parade can be witnessed with its bannered, medalled upholstery, crowds lost in...
The Israeli authorities, in their campaign of remorseless killing, doctoring and adjusting the numbers of the Palestinian populace for whatever future...
It is unfortunate that column space should be dedicated to Britain’s shortest termed prime minister and, arguably, one of its most imbecilic and...
On April 16, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued with authoritarian glee legal notices to X Corp and...
The attitudes down under towards social media have turned barmy. While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for his wrecking ball antics at the...
“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity,...
T he skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of a n overly worked ...
United States President Joe Biden made a casual remark this month that he was “considering” the request by Australia that the case against...
Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request...
The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint....
As the Australian government continues its vacuous utterances on Palestinian statehood, while denying it is supplying the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)...
While the Australian government continues to pirouette with shallow constancy on the issue of Israel’s war in Gaza, making vacuous utterances on...
Walking stiffly, largely distracted, and struggling to focus on the bare essentials, US President Joe Biden was keeping company with his Japanese...
United States President Joe Biden was with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida when asked what he was doing regarding Australia’s request that...
Official statements about the AUKUS security pact between Washington, London and Canberra rarely mention the target. Instead, they talk up “new...
Remorseless killing at the initiation of artificial intelligence has been the subject of nail-biting concern for various members of computer-digital...
Can it get any busier? The World Court, otherwise known as the International Court of Justice, has been swamped by applications on the subject of...
The occasional burst of candour from US diplomats provides a striking, air clearing difference to their Australian and British counterparts. Official...
The Australian Prime Minister , Anthony Albanese, was distraught and testy. It seemed that, on this occasion, Israel had gone too far. Not too far...
Haaretz reported on April 2 that three missiles had been fired in rapid succession at the convoy by a Hermes 450 UAV on direction of a unit guarding...
Eulogies should rarely be taken at face value. Plaster saints take the place of complex individuals; faults transmute into golden virtues. But there...
The human mind is often incapable of tolerating the limitless nature of a universe, the absence of a divine architect, or appreciate that intended...
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps recently visited Australia as part of the AUKMIN (Australia-United Kingdom...
Cancer is a stomping bugger of a disease. It seeks the worm-ridden end, a thief finding its way into your body unasked and willingly helping itself....
Rarely has the International Court of Justice been so constantly exercised by one topic during a short span of time. On January 26, the World Court,...
The curved course of the ubiquitous banana has often been the peel of empire, its sweetness masking a sharp, bitter legacy. Arab conquerors introduced...
The UN Security Council presents one of the great contradictions of power in the international system. On the one hand vested with enormous latitude...
Supporters of the WikiLeaks publisher Julian Asssange, who faces extradition to the United States, had hoped for a clear decision from the British...
What is it about British justice that has a certain rankness to it, notably when it comes to dealing with political charges? The record is not good,...
Two British ministers, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, paid a recent visit to Australia recently as part of...
Be wary of what Washington offers in negotiations at the best of times. The empire gives and takes when it can; the hegemon proffers and in equal...
The heralded arrival of the Internet, an information medium never before seen on such scale, caused enthusiasm. Humankind would go on to fawn over a...
The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful, an...
The National Archives of Australia on January 1 released a stash of cabinet documents, running into 240 from the John Howard government. Particularly...
Archivists can be a dull if industrious lot. Christmas crackers are less important than the new year announcement in Canberra, when the National...
It will come as little surprise that colossal Apple has been favouring its own music streaming service in snuffing and stuffing competitors. The...
How delicious is political hypocrisy. Abundant and rich, it manifests in the corridors of power with regularity. Of late, there is much of it in the...
AUKUS has become a stillborn project. Vassal states, satellites – in other words the butlers of international relations, the minders of the royal...
Israel’s ruthless campaign to defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is unravelling. The...
The steady and ruthless campaign by Israel to internationally defund the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),...
There was much to cherish about Night Falls in the Evening Lands: The Assange Epic, held on March 9 in Narrm/Melbourne’s Storey Hall. It was a...
The town hall meeting is the last throbbing reminder of the authentic demos. People gather; debates held. Views converge; others diverge. Speakers are...